Title
Bum: Bayesian User Model For Distributed Social Robots
Abstract
In this work we present a Bayesian User Model for inferring the characteristics and inter-user patterns of a population users. The model can receive evidence gathered by various interactive devices, such as social robots or wearable devices. The system is modular, with each module being responsible for gathering information and observations from persons present in the system's operation scenario. This information enables each module to determine a single characteristic of the person. New observations and measurements received by the system are fused with previous knowledge by a sub-process based on an information theory technique. This allows the system to be implemented in diverse heterogeneous distributed system topologies, extending beyond robotics. We have conducted experiments involving a team of social robots and simulated user population. Our experiments have shown that the system is able to learn and classify the persons' characteristics, and to find relevant user groups via clustering. This system can potentially be used to gather information on a large set of persons, as well as to be an information source for user-adaptive applications in areas such as Robotics, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Internet of Things.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
2017 26TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION (RO-MAN)
Social Robots, Robot Perception, Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction, User Modeling, User Profiling
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer vision,Social robot,Population,Data modeling,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,User modeling,Wearable technology,Robot,Robotics,Observations and Measurements
Conference
1944-9445
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gonçalo S. Martins192.86
Luís Santos211014.58
Jorge Dias317533.83